08-05-2011
Woah thank very much, honestly I have not tried it out yet since I have to integrate that into my script first.
What does the '-nlae' mean, or could you give a brief explanation on what is going on, I understand that ur taking the 3rd argument in the line which happens to be the date then ur doing something with that and then your doing a sort on the results..?
Thank you
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sortm - sort messages
Syntax
sortm [ msgs ] [ +folder ] [ options ]
Description
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Options
-datefield field
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as Delivery-Date:, then the -datefield switch can be used to tell which field to examine. If you do not give this option, the
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-help Prints a list of all the valid options to this command.
-verbose
-noverbose
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silently. The default is -noverbose.
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msgs defaults to all
-datefield date
-noverbose
Profile Components
Path: To determine your MH directory
Examples
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The next example sorts messages 10-30 in the folder called
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Files
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